September 29, 1780

Searle, William, fl. 1780

Autograph note signed

Title: to unknown

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4 August 1841

Reily, James, fl. 1841-1846

Autograph letter signed

Title: To Thomas Ward

Letter written from Houston, re: business, Texas finaces & poverty. There is a small hole on the third, and last page.

GLC02145.23.01

22 September 1841

Reily, James, fl. 1841-1846

Autograph letter signed

Title: To Thomas Ward

Letter written from Houston, re: land cases, politics

GLC02145.23.02

10 November 1841

Reily, James, fl. 1841-1846

Autograph letter signed

Title: To Thomas Ward

Letter written from Houston, re: land business

GLC02145.23.03

11 June 1846

Reily, James, fl. 1841-1846

Autograph letter signed

Title: To Thomas Ward

Letter written from Houston, re: impending war with Mexico and the U.S.

GLC02145.23.04

16 June 1841

Cook, William B., fl. 1841-1842

Autograph letter signed

Title: To Ward

Cook ALS 6/16/1841 1 p. re: challenge

GLC02145.28.01

16 June 1841

Ward, Thomas, fl. 1841-1842

Autograph letter signed

Title: To Cook

Ward ALS 6/16/1841 1 p. + docket re: finding seconds

GLC02145.28.02

16 June 1841

Ward, Thomas, fl. 1841-1842

Autograph letter signed

Title: To Ward

Cook ALS 6/16/1841 1 p. + addr. re: proposing 2 gentlemen

GLC02145.28.03

16 June 1841

Ward, Thomas, fl. 1841-1842

Autograph letter signed

Title: To Cook

Ward ALS signed "TWW" [6/16 or 6/17/1841] 1 p. + docket

GLC02145.28.04

18 June 1841

Ward, Thomas, fl. 1841-1842

Autograph letter signed

Title: To Cook

Ward ALS 6/18/1841 1 p. + addr.

GLC02145.28.05

02 October 1842

Ward, Thomas, fl. 1841-1842

Autograph letter signed

Title: To Ward

Cook ALS 10/2/1842 1 p. + addr. re: withdrawing challenge.

GLC02145.28.06

14 August 1846

Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company

Printed document signed

Title: Stock transfer certificates of the Galveston Bay & Texas Land Company

Partially printed documents assigning share to NY Attorney Stephen Whitney

GLC02756.01

15 September 1846

Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company

Printed document signed

Title: Stock transfer certificates of the Galveston Bay & Texas Land Company

Partially printed documents assigning share to NY Attorney Stephen Whitney

GLC02756.02

12 November 1846

Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company

Printed document signed

Title: Stock transfer certificates of the Galveston Bay & Texas Land Company

Partially printed documents assigning share to NY Attorney Stephen Whitney

GLC02756.03

11 March 1847

Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company

Printed document signed

Title: Stock transfer certificates of the Galveston Bay & Texas Land Company

Partially printed documents assigning share to NY Attorney Stephen Whitney

GLC02756.04

February 11, 1847

Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company

Printed document signed

Title: Stock transfer certificates of the Galveston Bay & Texas Land Company

Partially printed documents assigning share to NY Attorney Stephen Whitney

GLC02756.05

29 April 1847

Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company

Printed document signed

Title: Stock transfer certificates of the Galveston Bay & Texas Land Company

Partially printed documents assigning share to NY Attorney Stephen Whitney

GLC02756.06

5 December 1835

Burleson, Edward, fl. 1835-1843

Autograph document signed

Title: [Recipt for money and horses recieved]

A receipt to Stephen Austin regarding money and horses advanced by Austin. Title from docket

GLC03521.01

21 July 1842

Shan, James R., fl. 1842

Autograph document signed

Title: Treasury Warrant

Treasury warrant noting money paid to Burleson for his salary as Vice President of Texas.

GLC03521.02

Circa 1842

Ellis, Richard, fl. 1842

Autograph document signed

Title: [Recipt for education]

Receipt for tuition for three of the Burleson children.

GLC03521.03

18 July 1848

Moore, John, 1826-1907

Autograph letter signed

Title: To Richard

Excerpts: 18 July 1848: "I am still quite well notwithstanding I have for two or three weeks undergone much fatigue and have been broken of my regular sleeping hours. The health of the country does not seem to improve in the least. Cholera is still unabated, and seems rather on the increase." "The affair of the seas seems to have excited a great deal of interest in the neighborhood. I learned the fact of their having left - with the exception of [Join ?] the Louisville Democrat of week before last, They have succeeded in getting their names in the papers at all events. It is no atall…

GLC04192.01

16 June 1851

Moore, John, 1826-1907

Autograph letter signed

Title: To Mary

Excerpt: 16 June 1851: "Soon after my arrival I visited the Crystal Palace. This is a miniature world, where you may see people of every nation; and their advancement in the arts may be learned from the specimens of workmanship which they are here exhibiting.""Written at Fleet Street

GLC04192.02

08 August 1851

Moore, John, 1826-1907

Autograph letter signed

Title: To Richard

GLC04192.03

15 April 1852

Moore, John, 1826-1907

Autograph letter signed

Title: To Mary

GLC04192.04

2 August 1852

Moore, John, 1826-1907

Autograph letter signed

Title: To Mary

Excerpt: 2 August 1852: "The county was generally beautiful; many parts of it exceedingly so - naturally fertile but many parts poorly cultivated and every part filled with wretchedness, starvation and beggary - owing in part to an unjust and tyrannical system of government, systematically pursued for the last hundred years, but perhaps mainly to the miserable system of letting lands, by which the tenant can be turned out at any moment, without a care of remuneration for any improvements he may have made on the Land. Another reason of the wretched condition of many of them is their own…

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